Dealmakers Impact Report 2011: Finance

Since leaving his last corporate day job in 2002, the former CBS, Sony and Paxson Communications exec has been focusing on his diverse portfolio of investments, which includes everything from films to Indian casino gaming.

“When you’re working with a company, you don’t really get to choose your partners,” he says. “But here, I do. It’s much more enjoyable.”

KEY DEALS: In May, he and former MGM CEO Harry Sloan closed a $190 million IPO for Global Eagle Acquisition Corp., which will use its cash combined with debt financing to acquire a single media company with high growth potential in the U.S. or abroad.